Website Review and Suggestions

**Quoteus** · 06:33 AM

Hey all.

I am just about to launch a new website.

Please review it and tell me EVERYTHING.

I am open to ALL suggestions and I can handle the good and bad.

Please keep in mind that it's not completed yet so not all of the links are working.

www.quoteus.com.au

**CircleOfLinks** · 06:33 AM

not bad, but not all links are working...

**overdrive** · 02-16-2007, 08:40 AM

I think your site looks clean. The purple freaks me out a little bit, but now it has grown on me. It looked like everything worked on it when I went through it. Good job!

**twiggy** · 02-16-2007, 04:02 PM

Design is nice but its all in tables

come on guys CSS2 has only been around for 6/7years get on board.

**t4tom4** · 02-16-2007, 04:22 PM

Hey - Nicely designed, great use of colour! Good Luck with it

**travelagent** · 02-16-2007, 04:28 PM

The domain name is very misleading -- I see this site as nothing but a bunch of AFFILIATE ADVERTISING ... not to mention, you've placed REGISTERED TRADEMARK IMAGES with links to EBay; PayPal and Google.

I strongly urge you to see what Google say's about this, and check the others guidelines also before someone turns you in for copyright / trademark infringement ... Google Permissions

**RanaD** · 02-16-2007, 05:21 PM

I love purple! The design is good, except I hate scrolling right, some of the roll-over effects don't work, and it's done in tables. Your logo is nice & small, which is always a plus for me.

However, some other images can be reduced, and you fail on 152 errors with W3C's validator

**travelagent** · 02-16-2007, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RanaD

I love purple! The design is good, except I hate scrolling right, some of the roll-over effects don't work, and it's done in tables. Your logo is nice & small, which is always a plus for me.

However, some other images can be reduced, and you fail on 152 errors with W3C's validator

I never use that validator, as it doesn't catch all of the errors -- therefore, it missed alot of them; there's actually 256 code errors:

Code:

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**Quoteus** · 10:28 PM

Keep the comments coming

**Quoteus** · 02-16-2007, 10:27 PM

As this is my first ever website, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! can someone tell me how:
1. I would fix all the errors
2. To use something else other than tables
Thanks for all your input. keep em coming

Monica

**tomp** · 02-16-2007, 11:27 PM

Looking good, nice clean layout, maybe a little too much purple?

**CircleOfLinks** · 02-17-2007, 03:03 AM

hey honestly i think the whole w3c is a load of craps. check this out
google failed with 47 errors and yahoo also faild with like 37 errors. plus alot of the major banks in australia had also failed with many of them showing like 150+ errors. i have never seen a site come back with 0 errors.

i like it keep up the good work...

**RanaD** · 02-17-2007, 05:21 AM

Travelagent, which validator do you use? I know the W3C validator is not the alpha and omega of validation, but it is official, which is why I've always used it. Wouldn't mind switching to the one you're using if it picks up more errors.

Circle: It just shows you that you shouldn't try to learn from major banks, Google or Yahoo about coding

I have seen sites come up with 0 errors.

W3C sets standards for everyone to follow, so that eventually we'll have a uniform way to do things that will work for all browsers. How would you like to make sites for 10 different browser-agents, each with its own quirks? Designing for one browser with quirks (IE) is already a headache.

Quoteus: To fix the errors, look at what the reason for failing is. Each error should give you an idea of what is wrong.

Have a look in the CSS forum to learn how to design without tables.

**CircleOfLinks** · 02-17-2007, 07:41 AM

RanaD i would of thought that a company like google and yahoo who dominat the web would have perfect coders??

whats the big deal anyways if you have errors? does it really make a difference as long as the site works in most browsers? is there a real main reason for it??

**RanaD** · 02-17-2007, 09:12 AM

The main reasons

I asked Google why they don't validate.

**travelagent** · 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RanaD

Travelagent, which validator do you use? I know the W3C validator is not the alpha and omega of validation, but it is official, which is why I've always used it. Wouldn't mind switching to the one you're using if it picks up more errors.

RanaD -- I use the "HTML Tidy".

**kaisellgren** · 02-18-2007, 04:54 PM

Design is nice, but links in the left dont work.

**rambler** · 02-18-2007, 05:48 PM

I'm new to the webmaster world ( so take that into account about my review) But I think it looks great, very clean graphic-wise and professional looking. Though I personally don't like the color purple, it does look good on your site.

**AutoShopLinks** · 02-18-2007, 06:36 PM

I like the site...I think the idea and the lay out looks good. Not sure if its my connection but the site took a while to load. Overall I think there is definately potential to make $$ in that site. Good luck!

**pranitha** · 02-19-2007, 02:42 AM

fINE BUT ITS TAKING TOO MUCH TIME TO LOAD